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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>May 30, 2021</b></font></i></p>
<font size="+1">[USA Today - steps into the disinformation war]<b><br>
</b><b>'The future of this planet is at stake': Report pressures
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to battle climate lies</b><br>
Jessica Guynn<br>
USA TODAY - May 27, 2021<br>
The nation’s leading social media companies pulled out the stops
to shut down conspiracy theories, hoaxes and falsehoods about
COVID-19 and vaccines, QAnon and the 2020 election, but they are
far less aggressive when it comes to the latest hot spot in the
war on misinformation: climate change.<br>
Social media researchers and climate scientists said hundreds of
thousands of posts denying climate change can be found on Twitter,
Facebook and its Instagram app, Tik Tok and YouTube. A new report
from Advance Democracy shared exclusively with USA TODAY found
that warning labels or links to credible information are
frequently missing from posts that deny the existence of climate
change, dispute its causes or underplay its effects.<br>
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Among them is the false belief that the Grand Solar Minimum, a
period of low solar activity, will cool the planet and cause the
next ice age, which is particularly popular among prominent
climate change deniers and even has its own YouTube channel...<br>
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Daniel Jones, president of Advance Democracy, said climate
misinformation that obfuscates or downplays the threat to human
life delays “necessary policy reforms worldwide.”<br>
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“Our research affirms that the spread of climate misinformation is
prolific on social media and could benefit from platform
interventions that steer users to more accurate information,” he
said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/05/27/facebook-youtube-twitter-climate-misinformation-lies/7458465002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/05/27/facebook-youtube-twitter-climate-misinformation-lies/7458465002/</a><br>
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<font size="+1">[Western heat and drought forecast - brief broadcast
video]<br>
<b>U.S. braces for extreme weather conditions coast-to-coast</b><br>
May 29, 2021<br>
CBS Evening News<br>
Americans nationwide are expected to face extreme weather
conditions this Memorial Day weekend, with the South bracing for
storms and the eastern U.S. experiencing unusually cold
temperatures. CBS meteorologist and climate specialist Jeff
Berardelli has more.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb-GxqVlgPE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb-GxqVlgPE</a><br>
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[ 's not the proper term, pardon me]<br>
<b>'Sea snot' is clogging up Turkey's coasts, suffocating marine
life, and devastating fisheries</b><br>
Morgan McFall-Johnsen May 28, 2021<br>
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<blockquote><font size="+1">- A goopy substance called sea snot has
been clogging Turkish coasts in the Sea of Marmara for months.<br>
- The mucus has been filling fishing nets, suffocating coral,
and killing marine life.<br>
- climate change and fertilizer runoff may be fueling the algae
boom that's behind the sea snot.<br>
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<font size="+1">Blankets of a goopy, camel-colored substance have
been accumulating in the water off Turkey's coast for months.<br>
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The goop, called marine mucilage or "sea snot," is covering so
much of the coastline along the Sea of Marmara that people can no
longer fish there. The sea snot formations can get up to 100 feet
(30 meters) deep, according to the Turkish news site Cumhuriyet.<br>
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The sea snot fills fishing nets and weighs them down — one
fisherman told Cumhuriyet that nets have been bursting from the
weight of the mucus. A fishery co-op leader said people were
barely pulling in a fifth of the fish they hauled at this time
last year.<br>
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Marine mucilage is a goopy discharge of protein, carbohydrates,
and fat from microscopic algae called phytoplankton. The substance
was documented in the Sea of Marmara for the first time in 2007,
as researchers at Istanbul University reported in 2008...<br>
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Since phytoplankton thrive in warm water, scientists suspect that
climate change is fueling the new sea-snot crisis. Runoff from
nitrogen- and phosphorous-rich fertilizer and sewage could also be
causing an explosion in the phytoplankton population.<br>
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"We are experiencing the visible effects of climate change, and
adaptation requires an overhaul of our habitual practices. We must
initiate a full-scale effort to adapt," Mustafa Sarı, dean of
Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University's maritime faculty, told The
Guardian.<br>
"The gravity of the situation set in when I dived for measurements
in March and discovered severe mortality in corals," he told The
Guardian.<br>
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Thousands of fish have been washing up dead in coastal towns as
well, Sarı told The Guardian. The fish could be suffocating
because sea snot clogs their gills, or because it depletes the
water's oxygen levels.<br>
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"Once the mucilage covers the coasts, it limits the interaction
between water and the atmosphere," Sarı said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/turkey-sea-snot-crisis-devastates-fishing-marine-life-2021-5">https://www.businessinsider.com/turkey-sea-snot-crisis-devastates-fishing-marine-life-2021-5</a><br>
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<font size="+1"> [delicious changes]<br>
<b>Outrage and delight as France ditches reliance on meat in
climate bill</b><br>
Environment minister Barbara Pompili says proposals will help
country to meet net zero emissions<br>
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<blockquote><font size="+1">Meat will be off the menu at least one
day a week in schools, while vegetarian options will be standard
in public catering, and chefs will be trained in how to prepare
healthy and toothsome plant-based meals.<br>
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The proposals have sparked uproar and howls of outrage among the
traditionalists of French cuisine, but have been welcomed by
many young people...<br>
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France’s economic stimulus package is one of the world’s
greenest: of the €100bn the government is spending to revive the
economy after the Covid-19 shock, at least €30bn will go on
low-carbon projects.<br>
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The French are also working internationally, with the UK, to
ensure that vital UN climate talks, called Cop26, to be held
later this year in Glasgow, result in the full implementation of
the 2015 Paris agreement. “France has a special responsibility,”
she said.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/29/france-outrage-delight-meat-ditch-reliance-climate">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/29/france-outrage-delight-meat-ditch-reliance-climate</a><br>
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[Why anxiety?]<br>
<b>Climate Anxiety Makes Good Sense</b><br>
But in solidarity there’s some solace.<br>
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By Bill McKibben - May 5, 2021<br>
Even as we begin to emerge from the stress of the pandemic year,
mental-health professionals are noting a steady uptick in a
different form of anxiety—the worry over climate change and the
future that it will bring. The latest survey research from Yale and
George Mason universities shows about forty per cent of Americans
feeling “disgusted” or “helpless” about global warming; a poll from
the American Psychiatric Association last autumn found that
fifty-five per cent of respondents were concerned about the effects
of climate change on their own mental health. The effects seem
particularly harsh on new mothers, and, indeed, a fear of adding to
the climate problem and of the disintegration it might cause seems
to be deterring large numbers of young people from having kids of
their own. Understandably, the fear of a wrecked future increases as
you descend the age scale: a March survey of Gen-Z Americans aged
between fourteen and twenty-four found that eighty-three per cent
are concerned about the health of the planet (although nearly half
said that they have been feeling a little better since Biden took
office).<br>
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Perhaps there are ways in which this fear is a luxury—Sarah Jaquette
Ray, who literally wrote the book on climate anxiety, noted recently
that it is an “overwhelmingly white” phenomenon. Not because people
of color care less about the climate crisis (in fact, they care
more), but because they’ve faced other existential crises. “The
prospect of an unlivable future has always shaped the emotional
terrain for Black and brown people, whether that terrain is racism
or climate change,” Ray wrote. “Exhaustion, anger, hope—the effects
of oppression and resistance are not unique to this climate moment.
What is unique is that people who had been insulated from oppression
are now waking up to the prospect of their own unlivable future.”
Eric Holthaus, in his always interesting Substack newsletter on
climate, echoed some of these thoughts, after describing his own
anxiety as so crippling that, during attacks that lasted weeks, he’d
“been unable to write, unable to interact with friends, unable to
function normally.” But, he said, since those “who have already been
marginalized by centuries of oppression will be hurt the worst
. . . our job, as the climate anxious, is to repair that oppression,
repair that marginalization, to make sure you’re not offloading your
anxiety onto someone else in ways that are causing more harm.”<br>
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That’s fair enough—action has always seemed the best salve to me.
(And for those for whom it is not enough, the Climate Psychology
Alliance North America has published a directory of
“climate-informed therapists.”) But I think there’s another reason
that climate change can be so uniquely anxiety-producing: we’re not
used to dealing with fights that we don’t know we can win. Martin
Luther King, Jr.,’s statement, quoting the abolitionist Theodore
Parker, that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends
toward justice” was comforting in a civil-rights fight that
required—and requires—enormous courage: they meant, I think, “this
may take a while but we’re going to win.” But a different kind of
courage is needed for the climate battle, because the arc of the
physical universe is short and it bends toward heat. If we don’t win
soon, we will never win, because the Earth is rushing toward
irrevocable tipping points. We’ve already passed some—there’s no
plan afoot to refreeze the Arctic. And clearly things will get much
worse before they (possibly) start to stabilize; we’ve raised the
temperature a degree Celsius already, and the most optimistic
thinkers on the planet reckon that we might just be able to top out
at 1.5 degrees.<br>
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All of which is to say that we are right to be anxious. There are
profound reasons to hope that we’re about to make serious progress:
the sudden arrival of cheap renewable energy; the shifting
zeitgeist. (As is often the case, Rebecca Solnit sums them up with
particular power.) Even if we catch some breaks from physics,
though, it’s going to be a tough few decades. And what will make it
toughest may be the (very American) assumption that we have to
endure the anxiety by ourselves, in our own heads. I’ve found the
simple solidarity of movements at least as useful as the
opportunities for action that they provide; just knowing that lots
of other people are at work on the same problem is a solace, and a
goad to keep working. It’s one reason that I’m glad that
vaccinations are proceeding apace. It’ll be strategically useful to
be back in the streets, but it will also be psychologically useful:
we are shoulder to shoulder on Zoom, but it’s not quite the same.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/climate-anxiety-makes-good-sense">https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/climate-anxiety-makes-good-sense</a><br>
[full disclosure - The curator or this newsletter is a board member
of Climate Psychology Alliance North America]- -
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[one psychology research paper]<br>
<b>Fear Appeal Theory</b><br>
February 2012International Journal of Economics and Business
Research 5(February):63-82<br>
Authors: Kaylene C Williams California State University, Stanislaus<br>
<blockquote>Abstract<br>
A fear appeal posits the risks of using and not using a specific
product, service, or idea such that if you don't "buy," some
particular dire consequences will occur. That is, fear appeals
rely on a threat to an individual's well-being that motivates him
or her toward action, e.g., increasing control over a situation or
preventing an unwanted outcome. While threat and efficacy clearly
are important for fear appeal effectiveness, these two ingredients
alone are not sufficient. Additionally, empirical results
regarding fear appeal effectiveness are not conclusive. However,
the literature conventionally agrees that more effective fear
appeals result from a higher fear arousal followed by consequences
and recommendations to reduce the negativity. The purpose of this
article is to review and examine the fear appeal literature with
the aim of understanding the current overall fear appeal theory.
In particular, this paper includes the following sections:
introduction, definition of a fear appeal, use of fear appeals,
theories of fear appeals, overall findings from the fear appeal
theories and literature, and summary.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265807800_Fear_Appeal_Theory">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265807800_Fear_Appeal_Theory</a><br>
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<font size="+1">[Digging back into the internet news archive]<b><br>
</b></font><font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global
warming May 30, 2013 <br>
</b></font><font size="+1">May 30, 2013: In a controversial
Huffington Post article, climate scientist James Hansen suggests
that neither Republicans nor Democrats can be relied upon to
combat carbon pollution in a market-based manner.</font><br>
<blockquote><font size="+1">Dr. James Hansen, Contributor
Climatologist and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University Earth
Institute</font><br>
<font size="+1">The American Party -5/30/2013 </font><br>
<font size="+1">My remarks when receiving the Ridenhour Courage
Award were written in Union Station on my way to the event. But
my concluding comment — that we are near a point when the
American people should contemplate a centrist third party — was
not an idle spur-of-the-moment reflection.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">I was in government 40 years, long enough to
understand how aging organizations can evolve into self-licking
ice cream cones1, organizations whose main purpose becomes
self-perpetuation rather than accomplishment of their supposed
objectives. The public can see this tendency in our politicians,
our Congress, and our major political parties.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">Our government has failed to address climate,
energy, and economic challenges. These challenges, addressed
together, actually can be a great opportunity. Our democracy and
economic system still have great potential for innovation and
rapid adoption of improved technologies, if the government
provides the right conditions and gets out of the way.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">The Solution is Not Rocket Science</font><br>
<font size="+1">Conservatives and liberals alike can recognize the
merit of honest pricing of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels today
receive subsidies and do not pay their costs to society. Human
health costs of pollution from fossil fuel burning and fossil
fuel mining are borne by the public. Climate disruption costs
are borne by the victims and all taxpayers.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">This market distortion makes our economy less
efficient and less competitive. Fixing this problem is not
rocket science. The solution can be simple and transparent.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">Citizens Climate Lobby</font><br>
<font size="+1">Implausible dreaming, you scoff. Not so fast. For
example, consider Citizens Climate Lobby. If you don’t know
about them read today’s article in the New York Times. These are
honest, hard- working people trying to educate politicians and
the public about the need for a revenue-neutral carbon fee via
op-eds, letters-to-the-editor, meetings with editorial boards,
meetings with congressional staffers, and meetings with congress
people.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">Citizens Climate Lobby is made up largely of
volunteers, with continual training of new recruits. They have
doubled in size each year for the past several years and are
active in most states. They are positive, dedicated and
respectful, creating a good impression with congress people.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">What is the chance that they can compete against
the well-heeled fossil fuel lobby? Hard to say. But if they fail
to move our present government by 2015, and by then have doubled
in size a few more times, they just may be a democratic force to
be reckoned with. They seek to persuade and are unfailingly
respectful and polite, but determined. So, if in a few years the
two major parties remain uncompromising and unsupportive of a
carbon fee, it would not surprise me if Citizens Climate Lobby
became a major force for a centrist third party.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">Everybody is welcome to join Citizens Climate
Lobby — a link to an introductory call is at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.tfaforms.com/275537">http://www.tfaforms.com/275537</a>.</font><br>
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<font size="+1">- -</font><br>
<font size="+1">-- A self-licking ice cream cone is a
self-perpetuating system with no purpose other than to sustain
itself. The phrase was used first in 1992 in On Self-Licking Ice
Cream Cones, a paper by Pete Worden about NASA’s bureaucracy.</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-american-party_b_3358546">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-american-party_b_3358546</a>
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</b></font><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://citizensclimatelobby.org/">https://citizensclimatelobby.org/</a><br>
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